Nukes are way scarier than you think

Everything You Need to Know About Nuclear Weapons
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Nukes are in the news a lot in recent years. That got me wondering, just how powerful are these things? How do they work? And why do we still have 12,331 of them today?

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- Ankit Panda, Author of The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon https://carnegieendowment.org/people/ankit-panda?lang=en
- Destin Sandlin, SmarterEveryDay @smartereveryday

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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
0:00 Intro
3:42 Tinkering With Atoms
13:00 We want one!
16:05 Anatomy of a Nuke
19:13 Who has them?
20:34 Deterrence
30:02 Nuclear Chess
35:37 India, Pakistan, and China
36:40 Taiwan
38:40 North Korea
40:42 Can we just stop the nukes?

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